Elections Archive

If you believe the news, campaign spending is: Crazy! Incredible! Out of control! Bizarre and absurd! Record shattering! Are the sensational headlines true? Are today’s election campaigns really spending so much more than campaigns from years past? The Federal Election Commission maintains detailed campaign financials going back several years,...

On July 15th, the Federal Election Commission released the first batch of quarterly financial disclosure reports for the 2016 presidential campaigns. I have gone through the data, and it came as no surprise that one campaign’s financials looked very different from the others. Here are a...